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In a Thanksgiving holiday week viewers were thankful for NFL and college football action that grabbed the top 3 spots and four of the top five.

The Walking Dead walked to series highs in its fifth episode and ranked fourth for the week with 5.56 million total viewers, and with a 2.8 adults 18-49 rating will be ranked high with the advertising coveted demo as well. Sarah Palin’s Alaska was a bit outside the top 25 at #28 with 3.49 million viewers.

Victorious scored 5.3 million viewers Friday night between 8p-9p and was ranked sixth in total viewing for the week.

Showtime’s Dexter wasn’t in the top 25, but fared well on Sunday, up 20% from the prior week, and 43% better than the season 5 premiere with 2.54 million viewers. It was Dexter’s second-highest viewing ever, trailing only last year’s finale that had 2.57 million viewers.

NCIS grabbed four spots for USA and SpongeBob absorbed 11 out of the top 25 spots.

All numbers below are live plus same day DVR viewing up to 3am after the initial telecast.

Top 25 Basic cable shows for the week ending November 28, 2010:

Rank

Program

Network

Day

Time

Viewers (000)

1

BRONCOS/CHARGERS

ESPN

Mon

08:30P-11:40P

11,664

2

ARIZONA/OREGON

ESPN

Fri

07:22P-10:43P

7,787

3

2010 – BENGALS VS JETS

NFLN

Thu

08:30P-11:38P

7,106

4

WALKING DEAD

AMC

Sun

10:00P-11:00P

5,561

5

BOISE STATE/NEVADA

ESPN

Fri

10:43P-01:58A

5,449

6

VICTORIOUS: FREAK OUT

NICK

Fri

08:00P-09:00P

5,273

7

WWE ENTERTAINMENT

USA

Mon

10:00P-11:05P

4,981

8

NCIS

USA

Sun

08:00P-09:00P

4,951

9

TEXAS A&M/TEXAS

ESPN

Thu

08:00P-11:31P

4,886

10

WWE ENTERTAINMENT

USA

Mon

09:00P-10:00P

4,730

11

SPONGEBOB

NICK

Sat

09:30A-10:00A

4,542

12

SPONGEBOB

NICK

Fri

01:00P-01:30P

4,469

13

NCIS

USA

Sun

07:00P-08:00P

4,451

14

SPONGEBOB

NICK

Fri

11:30A-12:00P

4,434

15

SPONGEBOB

NICK

Fri

01:30P-02:00P

4,303

16

SPONGEBOB

NICK

Fri

11:00A-11:30A

4,298

17

SPONGEBOB

NICK

Fri

12:30P-01:00P

4,269

18

SPONGEBOB

NICK

Fri

12:00P-12:30P

4,262

19

NCIS

USA

Sun

09:00P-10:00P

4,240

20

NCIS

USA

Sun

10:00P-11:00P

4,178

21

SPONGEBOB

NICK

Fri

10:30A-11:00A

4,100

22

SPONGEBOB

NICK

Fri

02:00P-02:30P

3,907

23

SPONGEBOB

NICK

Fri

10:00A-10:30A

3,869

24

SPONGEBOB

NICK

Sun

09:30A-10:00A

3,833

25

VICTORIOUS: FREAK OUT

NICK

Sun

06:00P-07:00P

3,820

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